MITFORD, a parish comprising the townships of
Edington and Molesden in the western division of CASTLE
ward, and the townships of Benridge, High and
Low Heighley, Mitford, Newton-Park, Newton-Underwood,
Nunridge, Pigdon, Spittle-hill, and Thropple
in the western division of MORPETH ward, county of
NORTHUMBERLAND, and containing 625 inhabitants, of
which number, 178 are in the township of Mitford, Ifmile
(W. by S.) from Morpeth. The living is a discharged
vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Northumberland,
and diocese of Durham, rated in the king's books at
£10. 6. 8., endowed with £400 private benefaction,
£ 200 royal bounty, and £ 1100 parliamentary grant, and
in the patronage of the Bishop of Durham. The rivers
Wansbeck and Font run through the parish. Here are
the remains of a castle formerly belonging to Sir Gilbert
Middleton, for whose treasonable practices it was
demolished by order of Edward II.